š See the zeros on the mission control screen? Yes, Chandrayaan-3 lander has successfully made soft landing on Moon's surface near south pole! Congratulations!
Chandrayaan-3 lander's Hazzard Detection and Avoidance Camera warming up by taking pictures of the lunar far side before the scheduled soft landing on August 23
š Touchdown! Chang'e-6 successfully made soft landing on the far side of the Moon at 22:23:15.861 UTC on June 1st, with the help of Queqiao-2 relay satellite and 7500N main engine.
No images of or from the Pragyaan rover yet, but it's still very exciting to see the footage taken by Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander during descent
(c) ISRO
š i-Space successfully conducted a hop test of Hyperbola-2 test vehicle SQX-2Y today at Jiuquan.
The little rocket, 3.35m wide & 17m tall, powered by one 15t-thrust JD-1 metholox engine, reached 178.42m & then landed just ~1.68m away from the target with 0.025m/s terminal speed.